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Featuring interviews with the victim’s family, a TV show on Sunday will air an episode recounting the story of an Oxnard girl who was raped and murdered in 1980.

“On the Case with Paula Zahn” will tell how 15-year-old Stacy Knappenberger was killed while alone in her family’s Oxnard apartment on July 30, 1980. The episode will air on the true-crime TV channel Investigation Discovery.

The teen’s mother, Judy Linzey, and other loved ones recount key moments in their journey for justice, said Larry Israel, the show’s executive producer.

Knappenberger was found with more than 50 injuries, including bite marks, stab wounds, broken ribs and bruises all over her body. Prosecutors said Thomas Coalt Young chased the girl into the master bedroom, punched her in the face, beat her and raped her before stabbing the teen to death with a broken glass ashtray.

Knappenberger’s slaying remained unsolved until 2010, when the Ventura County Cold Case Task Force matched Young’s DNA with evidence collected at the crime scene, prosecutors said. His DNA was found in the teen’s genitals and on her jeans.

Young’s DNA was obtained after his arrest outside California in an unrelated case. The sample was matched in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, a national database that contains DNA profiles of those arrested or convicted of crimes.

He was arrested in 2012 in connection with the Oxnard killing.

Young’s defense attorney claimed the sex was consensual, he did not murder Knappenberger and many of the fingerprints collected at the scene were inconclusive.

In 2015, Young was convicted of the murder, including a special allegation that the killing occurred during a rape, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

He filed an appeal in July 2015, citing four reasons that he claimed violated his due process and led to him receiving an unfair trial. The 2nd Court of Appeal denied his claims and affirmed the trial court’s decision.

Potential viewers of the show can expect the episode to focus “a lot on the emotional components of the worst day of any persons’s life ... and then the saga of following an investigation,” Israel said.

Crime scene photos, police reports and police interviews are also used to maintain the authenticity of the story, Israel said.

The show’s production company traveled to Oxnard to show the neighborhood where the crime occurred. The local investigators then walked through those areas on camera and pointed out important locations and where evidence was discovered, Israel said.

The executive producer said the show “shines a positive light on the work done by law enforcement” at a time when such agencies may get negative attention.

Re-creations will also be part of the episode, but they will not show faces. And they will revolve around depicting the crime itself but are centered on the moments leading up to and following the incident, Israel said.

“They’re more impressionistic recreations because no one really knows what happened at the time of the crime,” Israel said.

The show will air at 10 p.m. Sunday on the Investigation Discovery channel.